For thermal heat transfer analysis, choose SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation over the Thermal solver in Simulation Professional, Part 1 of 3 Conduction With the exception of very few scenarios, when considering a thermal analysis solver for SOLIDWORKS, you should choose to use Flow Simulation, which is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code. The most typical exceptions would be when: (1) there is no convective heat transfer mechanism in the problem that is being solved because likely the object(s)

Sketching in xDesign Sketching is the foundation for creating 3D geometry in xDesign. Many features require sketches as part of the base geometry, including the most fundamental features such as an “Extrude”, a “Revolve”, a “Sweep”, or a “Loft”. This makes it extremely important to know how to use a variety of sketch commands and relate them together properly. In this lesson, we’ll focus on three separate aspects of sketching: using the main types of sketch entities, adding constraints between

An aviation enthusiast since he was young, Mr. Jettanakorn Pengsiri, founder of JFox Aircraft Co., Ltd. in Thailand, had always dreamt of building an aircraft of his own and taking to the skies. While working as an aircraft systems engineer, Jettanakorn decided to put his years of experience in designing aviation systems and aircraft maintenance to good use, by building his first plane – the two-seater JX-200RG Sport Thunder High-Performance five years ago. Initially intending to use it as a

Do you wanna build a snowman? Come on, let’s go play in SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids! Everyone loves to build snowpeople once the cold weather hits. But what if you live somewhere that never gets any snow?

On behalf of SOLIDWORKS team, thank you to everyone for ideas submitted to the SOLIDWORKS World 2019 Top Ten List. We are happy to see that even though the idea submissions window was a little shorter this year, the number of submissions is on par with previous years. This shows a lot of enthusiasm! Now that the idea submission window in closed, it’s time to vote!

SOLIDWORKS Motorcycle Madness-Meet Ben. Ben and an early CAD version of his motorcycle costume Ben and his current costume design Rev up your engines, folks, the SOLIDWORKS Magic Wheelchair Build Team is back at it again! SOLIDWORKS employees are putting the rubber to the road and building a new, fantastically epic costume for an amazing kiddo: Ben! Ben is one spunky 9-year-old!

Over the past few months we’ve learned a lot of great tips and tricks for working with SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids. Now it’s time to put it all together! Today we’re going to learn how to create a rocket in the Shape It App! Check out our blog throughout the fall for more SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids How To videos.

Hello to all, Welcome to the new edition of the SOLIDWORKS Support Monthly News! This monthly news blog is co-authored by members of the SOLIDWORKS Technical Support teams worldwide. Creating a fully replicated multi-site environment of SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional and SOLIDWORKS Manage By Kevin Crawford Have you wanted to know how you can set up a fully replicated PDM and Manage environment? I am going to walk you through the basics of setting up replication of SOLIDWORKS PDM and Manage.

Every SOLIDWORKS user has a basic understanding of how file references work. We typically make a part then create a drawing that shows views of this part. When creating the views on the drawing, what is really happening is the drawing views are looking at the actual part file and displaying it in a way that is based on our view settings. We say that the drawing references the part file.

One would think that the title of this article should be a no-brainer. The fact of the matter is that the ownership of this vital aspect of electronic design is not only cloudy, but it will become murkier in the next 10 years. This murkiness is also an opportunity for mechanical engineers who aren’t afraid to expand their horizons. In order to understand the current climate, we have to look at the division of labor that took place in electronic design about 40 years ago.

As of SOLIDWORKS 2018, we are able to calculate bounding box for Parts only. But from SOLIDWORKS 2019 onwards Bounding box can also calculate for Assembly and Sub Assembly. This new feature tool will be more helpful to evaluate the size of packing material and it is mostly for dispatch departments in the Industries. Let’s see how quick I calculate the Packaging Size [

When i have added a colour to my assemblie i cant make my parts transparent. I know this is because the colour is added as an "wrap" but can i somehow get around this without "painting" the parts I get around this by adding colour to parts at part level, and not on assembly level, then i can easily be transparent with the respective colour.